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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Fed’s Fisher Attacks Central Bank Policy: QE2 A Waste Of Money

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 2:44 pm

The head of the Dallas Fed and a regular opponent of the central bank's plans, Richard Fisher, took issue with a number of the Federal Reserve's recent decisions. He did ...
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Analyst Bull & Bear of the Day (GWW, JEC)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 9:59 am

Analyst calls often move stocks, or at least they highlight some of the issues for investors.  Today is seeing a contra-reaction from analyst calls out of Zacks Research calling W. ...
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Airline Traffic Gains in October, Trends to Watch (UAL, LCC, AMR, LUV, DAL, FAA)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 9:41 am

When US airlines reported third quarter earnings last month, the results were impressive and their share prices received a nice boost. The good news mostly continues to roll in, as ...
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Amazon’s Move Into Babycare (AMZN)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 9:25 am

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is making another acquisition to move into specialty retail areas, this time in the realm of babycare products.  Jeff Bezos and friends are acquiring a company ...
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Irish Bank Pressures Mounting on Politics (AIB, IRE)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:58 am

Irish banks are not newly in trouble, but fresh pressure is only going to further mount pressure on an already battered sector.  On Sunday, Ireland's main opposition party reportedly said ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 11/8/2010 McDonald’s Run, Chrysler Loss

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:52 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ALU, AVNR, NBG, SIGA, SOLR, YHOO)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:51 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Avanir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVNR), GT Solar ...
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To Be Truly Great, the NFL Must End Its Soft Socialism

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:42 am

By John Tamny of Forbes The NFL is the nation's premiere sports league by far, but there's room for improvement through better incentives with regard to draft position, team ownership, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAP, ALU, ATK, BWEN, BRCD, CLWR, CVH, CUB, DISH, EOG, INTC, MET, PCS, SPG)

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:04 am

These are some of this Monday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Alcatel-Lucent ...
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Today’s Best Rumors (11/8/2010) AOL, Sara Lee M&A

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 8:01 am

Updated throughout the day. Aol (NYSE: AOL) has hired investment bankers to look at strategic option which may include a bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) (WSJ) Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) ...
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Chrysler Still Bleeds Money

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 7:39 am

Chrysler still bleeds money based on its third quarter earnings release. The numbers stand in contrast to recent profits reported by GM, Ford Motor (NYSE: F), and Toyota (NYSE: TM). ...
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Qantas Keeps Planes Grounded, Rolls Royce Shudders

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 6:05 am

Qantas will continue to ground its fleet of A380 super-jumbo jets. The decision will keep the aircraft out of the air for at least 72 hours. Leaks have been found ...
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The Queen Of England Launches A Facebook Page. God Save Her

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 5:33 am

The Queen of England has launched her own Facebook page--at 83 years of age. It is called "The British Monarchy" and is filed with pictures and videos of the Queen ...
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America And Monetary Isolationism

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 4:58 am

Germany attacked the Federal Reserve's QE2 program. So did China. And, so did most of the nations which have begun to prepare for the G 20 summit on November 11th ...
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Eight Reasons The Dow Could Get Back Over 14,000

Posted: November 8, 2010 at 4:24 am

It may feel like it was a generation ago when the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its all-time high of 14,198.10. But that was almost three years ago - October ...
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